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Surveillance powers: New law needed, says terror watchdog
- commentzorro 11y agoI'll summarize this for you. "Be afraid, be very afraid. All the time." Said every government snooping agency everywhere. "Citizens, we only have your best interests in mind and would never use this to impose civil or moral restrictions on you."
- oliwarner 11y ago"Terror watchdog"?! Moving on... It'd be nice if somebody could put some costings on this. We keep hearing that we "need" this super-urgently but when there are day-to-day services like primary healthcare, mental healthcare and policing being constricted under progressively tighter budgets, is there not a point where we have to wonder if there's any point in defending the country if we're just going to let it fall into social disrepair. Two years ago GCHQ supposedly[1] had a budget of £1.9bn. That's a lot of nurses. Who knows what's happened to that number since then and whether or not that includes the infrastructure ISPs need to let them in and retain all this data (which I assume we're paying for anyway). [1]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/01/gchq-spy-agency-nsa-edward-snowden http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/01/gch...